George Orwell's 1984

Summary: This essay discusses George Orwell's failed attempt at creating a utopian world (in a very perverse manner) in the novel 1984. Describes how the inhabitants of the world that Orwell describes live a desolate, sad life.

It is always difficult to try and adequately define a utopian world. By definition, a utopian world is a perfect one. Unfortunately, the word perfect is notoriously relative and subject to individual interpretation. One can therefore not say that the perfect world has no murder, no crime, no alcohol, or any other such social malaises because of the possibility that someone in the world might require them for their own definition of perfection, and therefore, their definition of a utopia. It is for that reason that one cannot ever fabricate a universal definition of a word like utopia beyond the most simplest: a world where everyone is happy.

The world depicted in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is far from achieving the above definition. The inhabitants of the world that Orwell describes live a desolate, sad life. Happiness is contained, opinions (at least, individual ones) are restricted, and any...